links for 2007-05-15

“Readers are getting through a staggering average of 38kg of newspapers each per year – and 50 per cent of them are currently being recycled.”

Howard Kurtz on The Economist in Washignton: “the magazine is not Time or Newsweek with an Oxford accent.”

Heather Brooke: “The Mumsnet case makes clear how libel affects everyone, not just journalists or those working in the traditional media. More and more of us, thanks to the growing ubiquity of blogs, chat groups and web forums, are vulnerable to this nefa

“Bancroft family members convened yesterday by conference call to discuss Rupert Murdoch’s latest attempt to woo them into accepting News Corp.’s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.”

“Net movement that shook up South Korea yet to do same here [in Japan]” Theories on OhmyNews Japan: Japanese people are too busy and value anonymity too much; Japanese media is hostile to UGC.

Colin Randall reflects on his experience blogging since being sacked as the Telegraph’s Paris correspondent: “The sites attract comment elsewhere, and this keeps me in some people’s minds as an active journalist”

“The British media has become so frantic in their coverage of the Madeleine McCann story that they have spawned a Portuguese website devoted to correcting their excesses.”

Newsweek’s Andrew Murr interviews the California publisher who is outsourcing local reporting to India.